Dubrovsky Dubrovsky is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841. The name Dubrovsky was given by the editor. Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov’s daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results. In 1935 this novel was filmed. Dubrovsky is film, romantic adventure drama. Director: Alexander V. Ivanovsky; Main Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Tarkhanov. Country: Soviet Union; Running Time: 75 min. There were several options for ending of novel. Ivanovsky acquainted with everybody and wrote his: the rebellious peasants killed Troyekurov despot.
(Rodionova Liza)
Cruel Romance "Without a Dowry" (1878) is a famous play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The main characters are: Larisa, Paratov and Karandyshev. Paratov and Larisa were in love, but he didn't marry Larisa and left the city. Larissa's reputation was spoilt so she decided to marry Karandyshev. He wasn't rich or handsome at all, but he loved Larisa and wanted to be with her in spite of her bad reputation. But one day Paratov came back to the city and tempted Larisa again. He ruined her life and in the end Larisa was killed by Karandyshev. There's a screen version of this book directed by Eldar Ryazanov called "Cruel Romance" (1984) with Larisa Guzeeva (Larisa), Nikita Mikhalkov (Paratov) and Andrey Myagkov (Karandyshev) playing lead roles. This film has a set of Russian romances written by Andrey Petrov and performed by Valentina Ponomaryova. They became very popular in Russia after this film and are loved by many people even now.
(Nikadonova Sonya)
The heart of a dog “The heart of a dog” is a black-and-white 1988 Soviet television film, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel “Heart of a Dog” written in 1925. Vladimir Bortko is the director of the film. It is a story about a brilliant famous professor,surgeon Phillip Phillippovich Preobrazhensky (Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev) who befriend a dog Sharik. He with his assistant Dr. Bormental (Boris Plotnikov) decides to do a great experiment- to conduct a human heart transplant to the dog. This heart was belonged to alcoholic and criminal Klim Chugunkin. So, the results are unexpected: after the transplantation this being - it calls itself Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov- starts to behave pretty horrible. He inherited bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking of Klim, but he still hates cats. Vladimir Tolokonnikov plays the main role. Phillip Phillippovich try to keep calm, but soon he realizes that it is impossible to bear it. Sharikov steals his money, breaks his furniture. So, professor turned Sharikov back to a dog.
(Semchat Yulia)
War and Peace It's an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families - particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs - the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.
War and Peace is a Soviet of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, released in four parts during 1966 and 1967. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the series, co-wrote the script and starred in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. Upon its release, it became a success with the audiences and won a lot of different awards and prizes.
(Semyanischeva Victoria)
The Dawns Here Are QuietThis story is written by Boris Vasiliev. He tells about fates of five women and their commander during the Great Patriotic War. The troop of anti-aircraft gunners was under command Fedot Vaskov. One day a girl noticed two German saboteurs. The commander understood that they had planned to achieve strategic objects and he decided to stop them. He organized the group of five women and led a detachment to prevent enemy’s intentions. They entered into unequal battle. All the girls were killed, but the commander Vaskov managed to capture the enemy. The eponymous film was shot in 1972 by the director Stanislav Rostockiy. The plot of the film is very close to the text of the book. In 2015 another version of this film was released. The Dawns Here Are Quiet impresses people of different ages because everybody understands the entire burden of those days. This story is very touching and exciting.
(Mukhina Valeria)
ScarecrowI want to describe the plot of the film and the book "Scarecrow". A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracised, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty. Their classmates call her "a scarecrow" ("" in Russian, the same as title of the movie) and "the traitor". They mock her as well as her grandfather who collects local paintings and wears a coat with patches. The boy still proves to be a coward, not telling the truth, and what's more, beginning to torture her as well as the others. The pressure escalates and Lena who has told her grandfather about whole case finally decides to solve the problem once and for all.
(Kapitsyna Sonya)
Wii "Wii" - a feature film, shot in 1967 in the USSR on the novel by Nikolai Gogol. One of the leaders of the Soviet film distribution in 1968. This film is referred to as the first and last horror film, shot in the Soviet Union. One night, the protagonist, a seminarian Homa Brut, accidentally killed the witch, pay after the death of the charming girl. Soon, he should read the burial that same young girl who now wants to avenge Homa. Brut trying to escape, but the girl's father prevent him, promising to fulfill the request of his daughter's suicide. He puts Homa choice: if rite seminary will bring to the end - he will get a generous reward; if Homa try to wriggle out of the funeral - he will be severely punished. Homa will defend against various evil spirits for three nights through prayer: witches, vampires, ghouls, and finally, the most terrible Wii. (Solovieva Lera)
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita is a Russian television mini-series produced by Russian television channel Telecanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Makhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter. The film is an adaptation of the novel The Master and Margarita written by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Three story lines are interwoven.
The first story is a satire of the ‘30s in the 20th century, the period during which Joseph Stalin was in power in the Soviet Union. The demon Woland comes to Moscow to have his annual Spring Ball of the Full Moon. Together with his demonic suite, he challenges the corrupt lucky ones, bureaucrats, and profiteers of that period in an hilarious way..
The second story line is set in the biblical Yershalaim, and describes the inner struggle of Pontius Pilate before, during, and after the conviction and execution of Yeshua Ha Nozri.
The third layer tells the love story between a nameless writer in Moscow in the 1930s and his lover Margarita. The Master has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, a subject which was taboo in the officially atheistic Soviet Union.
(Alyona Kosova)
Olesya "Olesya" - One of the first major works Kuprin, written in 1898 and the same year was published in the newspaper "Kievlyanin". The main theme of the work is the tragic love of the city master Ivan and the young girl Olesya possessing supernatural powers. The young master Ivan T., which is conducted on behalf of the narrative comes to a small Ukrainian village. Barin bored in a remote village after city life. During the hunt, he got lost and met with Olesya. She is the granddaughter of the witch. Ivan and Olesya begin to meet secretly. Soon Ivan offers Olesya married but she is forced to give up her lover. Because of the attacks villagers Olesya and her grandmother is necessary to move. Ivan also need to leave. He wants to say goodbye to the beloved but recognizes that they have already moved. It's like sending your loved farewell, Olesya left in his hut red beads.
"Olesya" was filmed three times: in 1915, in 1956 (the film was called "The Witch") and in 1971. The film was shot in 1971 starring such actors as the Chursina Lyudmila - (Olesya) Gennadi Nikolaev - (Ivan T.) Maria Kapnist - (Manuyliha)
(Vladimirova Nina)
"The Overcoat" "The Overcoat" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russianauthor Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. The story has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. It was filmed three times in 1926 (directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg; the main character is Andrei Kostrichkin),1952 (Italian fantasy-drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada) and 1959 (directed by Aleksey Batalov; the main characer is Rolan Bykov).
(Nikishina Vika)
18-14 «18-14» is a television film, based on Dmitry Miropolsky’novel. The film was shot on location with real historic interiors of the State Museum-preserve "Tsarskoye Selo" and Park ensembles of the town of Pushkin. One of the producers, Alexander Rodnyansky, talks about the project: "This story is based on a true episode in the life of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. It is not about Pushkin, although Pushkin is one of its six main characters. It's not a mystery, although there is such an element. Pushkin in one of his famous poems are the names of all the main characters of this film, and those who participated in the detective episode. It's not far-fetched story. This is an attempt to make a modern movie. After all, there is a problem – if to speak about the culture of the language of the channel "Culture", then we get into the segment "Museum of cinema". Young audience accustomed to a different rhythm, she's got other Minobrazovanija, and she can't perceive such language". The film is based on real events of 1814. Before the advent of Stas Belozerova on the role of Pushkin auditioned Ivan Makarevich.
(Ovchinnikova Kate)
Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin is the story of a young man whose life consists of entertainment, but he moved to the village. They met with Olga and Tatiana. For the sake of jokes flirting with Olga and her fiancé Lensky challenges him to a duel. Onegin kills Lensky. Tatyana marries and when Onegin meets her on one of the balls he understand that he loves her. But Tatyana rejects him. At the film—musical we can see the same story. This film is directed by The film studio "Lenfilm". Director is Roman Tikhomirov and Written by Alexander Ivanovsky Roman Tikhomirov. Starring are Ariadne Shengelaja Svetlana Nemolyaeva Vadim Medvedev.
Dubrovsky
Dubrovsky is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841. The name Dubrovsky was given by the editor. Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov’s daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results.
In 1935 this novel was filmed. Dubrovsky is film, romantic adventure drama. Director: Alexander V. Ivanovsky; Main Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Tarkhanov. Country: Soviet Union; Running Time: 75 min. There were several options for ending of novel. Ivanovsky acquainted with everybody and wrote his: the rebellious peasants killed Troyekurov despot.
(Rodionova Liza)
Cruel Romance
"Without a Dowry" (1878) is a famous play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The main characters are: Larisa, Paratov and Karandyshev. Paratov and Larisa were in love, but he didn't marry Larisa and left the city. Larissa's reputation was spoilt so she decided to marry Karandyshev. He wasn't rich or handsome at all, but he loved Larisa and wanted to be with her in spite of her bad reputation. But one day Paratov came back to the city and tempted Larisa again. He ruined her life and in the end Larisa was killed by Karandyshev.
There's a screen version of this book directed by Eldar Ryazanov called "Cruel Romance" (1984) with Larisa Guzeeva (Larisa), Nikita Mikhalkov (Paratov) and Andrey Myagkov (Karandyshev) playing lead roles. This film has a set of Russian romances written by Andrey Petrov and performed by Valentina Ponomaryova. They became very popular in Russia after this film and are loved by many people even now.
(Nikadonova Sonya)
The heart of a dog
“The heart of a dog” is a black-and-white 1988 Soviet television film, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel “Heart of a Dog” written in 1925. Vladimir Bortko is the director of the film.
It is a story about a brilliant famous professor,surgeon Phillip Phillippovich Preobrazhensky (Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev) who befriend a dog Sharik. He with his assistant Dr. Bormental (Boris Plotnikov) decides to do a great experiment- to conduct a human heart transplant to the dog. This heart was belonged to alcoholic and criminal Klim Chugunkin.
So, the results are unexpected: after the transplantation this being - it calls itself Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov- starts to behave pretty horrible. He inherited bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking of Klim, but he still hates cats. Vladimir Tolokonnikov plays the main role.
Phillip Phillippovich try to keep calm, but soon he realizes that it is impossible to bear it.
Sharikov steals his money, breaks his furniture.
So, professor turned Sharikov back to a dog.
(Semchat Yulia)
War and Peace
It's an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families - particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs - the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.
War and Peace is a Soviet of Leo Tolstoy' s novel War and Peace, released in four parts during 1966 and 1967. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the series, co-wrote the script and starred in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. Upon its release, it became a success with the audiences and won a lot of different awards and prizes.
(Semyanischeva Victoria)
The Dawns Here Are QuietThis story is written by Boris Vasiliev. He tells about fates of five women and their commander during the Great Patriotic War. The troop of anti-aircraft gunners was under command Fedot Vaskov. One day a girl noticed two German saboteurs. The commander understood that they had planned to achieve strategic objects and he decided to stop them. He organized the group of five women and led a detachment to prevent enemy’s intentions. They entered into unequal battle. All the girls were killed, but the commander Vaskov managed to capture the enemy. The eponymous film was shot in 1972 by the director Stanislav Rostockiy. The plot of the film is very close to the text of the book. In 2015 another version of this film was released. The Dawns Here Are Quiet impresses people of different ages because everybody understands the entire burden of those days. This story is very touching and exciting.
(Mukhina Valeria)
ScarecrowI want to describe the plot of the film and the book "Scarecrow". A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracised, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty. Their classmates call her "a scarecrow" ("" in Russian, the same as title of the movie) and "the traitor". They mock her as well as her grandfather who collects local paintings and wears a coat with patches. The boy still proves to be a coward, not telling the truth, and what's more, beginning to torture her as well as the others. The pressure escalates and Lena who has told her grandfather about whole case finally decides to solve the problem once and for all.
(Kapitsyna Sonya)
Wii
"Wii" - a feature film, shot in 1967 in the USSR on the novel by Nikolai Gogol. One of the leaders of the Soviet film distribution in 1968. This film is referred to as the first and last horror film, shot in the Soviet Union.
One night, the protagonist, a seminarian Homa Brut, accidentally killed the witch, pay after the death of the charming girl. Soon, he should read the burial that same young girl who now wants to avenge Homa. Brut trying to escape, but the girl's father prevent him, promising to fulfill the request of his daughter's suicide. He puts Homa choice: if rite seminary will bring to the end - he will get a generous reward; if Homa try to wriggle out of the funeral - he will be severely punished. Homa will defend against various evil spirits for three nights through prayer: witches, vampires, ghouls, and finally, the most terrible Wii.
(Solovieva Lera)
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita is a Russian television mini-series produced by Russian television channel Telecanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Makhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.
The film is an adaptation of the novel The Master and Margarita written by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Three story lines are interwoven.
The first story is a satire of the ‘30s in the 20th century, the period during which Joseph Stalin was in power in the Soviet Union. The demon Woland comes to Moscow to have his annual Spring Ball of the Full Moon. Together with his demonic suite, he challenges the corrupt lucky ones, bureaucrats, and profiteers of that period in an hilarious way..
The second story line is set in the biblical Yershalaim, and describes the inner struggle of Pontius Pilate before, during, and after the conviction and execution of Yeshua Ha Nozri.
The third layer tells the love story between a nameless writer in Moscow in the 1930s and his lover Margarita. The Master has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, a subject which was taboo in the officially atheistic Soviet Union.
(Alyona Kosova)
Olesya
"Olesya" - One of the first major works Kuprin, written in 1898 and the same year was published in the newspaper "Kievlyanin". The main theme of the work is the tragic love of the city master Ivan and the young girl Olesya possessing supernatural powers. The young master Ivan T., which is conducted on behalf of the narrative comes to a small Ukrainian village. Barin bored in a remote village after city life. During the hunt, he got lost and met with Olesya. She is the granddaughter of the witch. Ivan and Olesya begin to meet secretly. Soon Ivan offers Olesya married but she is forced to give up her lover. Because of the attacks villagers Olesya and her grandmother is necessary to move. Ivan also need to leave. He wants to say goodbye to the beloved but recognizes that they have already moved. It's like sending your loved farewell, Olesya left in his hut red beads.
"Olesya" was filmed three times: in 1915, in 1956 (the film was called "The Witch") and in 1971. The film was shot in 1971 starring such actors as the Chursina Lyudmila - (Olesya)
Gennadi Nikolaev - (Ivan T.)
Maria Kapnist - (Manuyliha)
(Vladimirova Nina)
"The Overcoat"
"The Overcoat" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russianauthor Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. The story has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. It was filmed three times in 1926 (directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg; the main character is Andrei Kostrichkin),1952 (Italian fantasy-drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada) and 1959 (directed by Aleksey Batalov; the main characer is Rolan Bykov).
(Nikishina Vika)
18-14
«18-14» is a television film, based on Dmitry Miropolsky’novel.
The film was shot on location with real historic interiors of the State Museum-preserve "Tsarskoye Selo" and Park ensembles of the town of Pushkin.
One of the producers, Alexander Rodnyansky, talks about the project: "This story is based on a true episode in the life of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. It is not about Pushkin, although Pushkin is one of its six main characters. It's not a mystery, although there is such an element. Pushkin in one of his famous poems are the names of all the main characters of this film, and those who participated in the detective episode. It's not far-fetched story. This is an attempt to make a modern movie. After all, there is a problem – if to speak about the culture of the language of the channel "Culture", then we get into the segment "Museum of cinema". Young audience accustomed to a different rhythm, she's got other Minobrazovanija, and she can't perceive such language".
The film is based on real events of 1814.
Before the advent of Stas Belozerova on the role of Pushkin auditioned Ivan Makarevich.
(Ovchinnikova Kate)
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin is the story of a young man whose life consists of entertainment, but he moved to the village. They met with Olga and Tatiana. For the sake of jokes flirting with Olga and her fiancé Lensky challenges him to a duel. Onegin kills Lensky. Tatyana marries and when Onegin meets her on one of the balls he understand that he loves her. But Tatyana rejects him.
At the film—musical we can see the same story. This film is directed by The film studio "Lenfilm". Director is Roman Tikhomirov and Written by Alexander Ivanovsky
Roman Tikhomirov. Starring are Ariadne Shengelaja Svetlana Nemolyaeva Vadim Medvedev.
(Morina Nastya)